The Cop & The Scammer - REAL Phone Conversation!

hi there sergeant Chris Guerra Victoria Police Department so the best thing just happened I walked off left my phone sitting on the desk and as I'm coming back I hear that it had just quit ringing I missed a phone call so I have a voice now check the voicemail and it is an automated voice generated our computer-generated voice should I say and the message says that it is from the IRS and this is a final notice that the the IRS has opened a lawsuit against me for tax evasion and I need a read turn their phone call immediately to avoid legal action you would think that I would be familiar if legal action was gonna be taken against me but whatever this is actually a common scam it normally plays in two parts so there's a good chance I'll be getting a second phone call here shortly which will be really funny because normally the second phone call is a follow up claiming to be from a local law enforcement agency wouldn't that be great but anyway they try to scare people into believing that you're in trouble for tax evasion and they want you to call back so that's exactly what I'm gonna do and I'm gonna take you along for the ride we're gonna call this number back and we're gonna see exactly what they have to say so now it would be my luck that this would be the one time that something got messed up with my taxes or something and the IRS is truly going after me Here I am messing with them and videotaping it and putting it out to the world to incriminate myself hello what six seven nine five seven nine we're all on the same line with them well isn't this interesting I've never so they've got us on a conference call I'm actually a police officer they called me really oh really well that that is delightful young sir so so the way this normally works you would you would typically be making a follow-up phone call correct claiming to be from a local law enforcement agency to scare people into sending y'all money right I'm gonna pass I'm gonna decline I've got not only this phone number but all the numbers that are linked number what's that so since I've got you on the phone you know obviously you know I'm not going to come after you do you mind do you mind just telling me how your scam works I send you a green card you want me to send you a but I mean you your initial scam and in what in what way you send out the phone call it's an automated phone call right claiming to be from the IRS right yeah so that was actually really interesting what just took place I was on the phone with a scammer from Pakistan who just explained from his mouth you heard it there exactly what they do they utilize the green dot Green Pak dot money Pak scam that is what they want you to pay for you heard it there straight from his mouth so I'll try to write up a little something and further explain exactly how this scam works but if you get these phone calls claiming to be from the IRS or anybody else and and they use fear tactics to try to get you to make decisions in a hasty fashion before you ever give out any type of sensitive information or especially before you send any money you can always contact your local police department we will help you and guide you through the process if you have any doubts a lot of times just doing a reversed Google search on the phone number though will tell you a lot about where that phone number is originating from and you'll see that people have initiated complaints and that it's tied to a scam so that was pretty interesting there actually got on the phone with the scammer and gave me some information so you never know what's gonna happen what I guess you're nothing - I'm six seven nine - nine five seven nine

Channel: Victoria Police Department

Views: 5,125,120

Rating: 4.8847241 out of 5

Keywords: Confidence Artist (Profession), Call, Calls, Phone, Calling, scam, scammer, police, law enforcement, irs scam, Internal Revenue Service (Government Agency), green dot money pak, victoria police department, crime prevention, Police Officer (Film Character)

Id: f4sy2-SMhL8

Length: 7min 14sec (434 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 12 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/Five-0]

Full disclosure - THIS IS ME in the video - the cop, not the scammer... I don't care about the Karma, I just want people to be made aware of this. Feel free to repost if it gets more exposure. Reap all the karma you please. I believe there is value in people seeing this.

[u/PitchforksPlease]

This is awesome and so funny thank you. Quick question if I do have to call my local police about a scam should I use the standard non-emergency line or would there be a different number for internet/scam reporting?

[u/KurtWagnerX]

Thanks for sharing this!!

[u/illegalsandwiches]

What you need to do, what we all need to do, is get this video out. Edit out the parts to make it sound more PG/PG-13, and post on Facebook, Twitter, any other commonly used social networking sites, and tell fellow LE agencies to help spread the word. The more coverage this has, the less people will fall for this scam. It seems to be targeting senior citizens as well. Just a few articles from my neck of the woods within the last year:

http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2014/06/dont_fall_for_advance-payment.html

http://woodtv.com/2015/02/05/grandparents-out-thousands-after-phone-scam/

http://wwmt.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/Consumers-warns-against-39-green-dot-scam-39-38278.shtml#.VQNxkvzF8zM

Even though they are different stories; Consumers shutting off electricity, grandson in jail, won the lottery, etc, they all involve the core scam in itself. And, if people are getting the calls to this day, it means the scam is still working.